The CEC will be providing updates about activities in the Texas Legislature that are related to the environment. Please let us know if you are particularly interested in an legislation, and we’ll keep a special eye out for it. Over the next several months, we will also be providing guest commentary about various pieces of legislation. We’ll be collecting our…
Please join the CEC in honoring and thanking all who served in the United States Armed Forces. We give extra thanks to those veterans who have been part of environmental programs within the U.S. Armed Services and in their communities. With well over a million employees and extensive land holdings, the US Military has a tremendous impact on the environment,…
Featured Conservancy worries power lines could harm Katy Prairie (Rebecca Elliott – Houston Chronicle, 11/6/2014) Before the population boom, before Katy Mills and the multiplying subdivisions, much of the land surrounding this Houston suburb looked as protected swaths of the Katy Prairie do now: sweeping grasses interspersed with wetlands, birds, and wildflowers. The latest threat, some say, is a proposed…